How to open VS Code with a Tauri App?

[pt-hieu]

Hi all,

I'm developing a new Tauri app that lets me open a VS Code codespace with a given path. I'm doing like:

  if (isWeb()) return

  const path = repo?.value?.repo.path
  if (!path) {
    toast.add('Path has not been configured', 'Error', undefined, 2)
    return
  }

  const cmd = new Command('code', path)
  // const cmd = new Command('code', '.', { cwd: path }) 
  cmd.on('error', () => {
    toast.add('Opening repo in Vs Code failed!', 'Error', OPEN_VSCODE_TOAST_ID, 2)
  })

  await cmd.spawn().catch((e) => {
    alert(e)
  })

My tauri config for that is

{
   "name": "code",
   "cmd": "code",
   "args": true
}

What I have received is program not found. I also tried echo %PATH% and still had the same output. So I have no idea why this is happening or if it's relating to the sidecar feature of Tauri. How am I gonna deal with it?

Thanks

[FabianLars]

The problem with vscode in particular is that what's added to the PATH var is not the exe itself, but a cmd script. This means that, at least on windows, you have to explicitly call that file by changing the scope config's cmd to "cmd": "code.cmd".
On Linux/macos it's a bit tricky since the bundled app packages don't even have inherit the PATH from shell dotfile (you can regain access to it via this crate https://github.com/tauri-apps/fix-path-env-rs). But on these platforms you probably would invoke the equivalent to sh -c "code path" to start vscode (which should work on windows too btw)

[pt-hieu]

got it, thank you